TyranitarExpedition Base Set · #29/165 · Rare Holo · 2002
The Hoshino Verdict
What this card’s market is actually doing — scored, stated and kept current.
Hoshino recorded 160 confirmed sales of this card in the last 12 months across 3 venues in North America and Southeast Asia. We hold enough sales to describe the market, but not a continuous price history long enough to measure a move against — so we do not report one. The most recent sale we hold is 27 days old.
Verdict recomputed 10m ago · it changes as the market does.
Tyranitar is card 29 of 165 in Expedition Base Set, released in 2002 as part of the E-Card series. It is a Rare Holo card, illustrated by Kimiya Masago.
We hold population readings for this card from PSA, but our own confirmed sale record exceeds them at one or more tiers — so the readings are incomplete and no scarcity figure is quoted here. The counts, and the contradiction, are set out in the population section below. We hold 181 confirmed sales on record for this card across 9 venues in 2 regions — every price on this page traces back to them.
Descriptive market data, not investment advice. The Hoshino Score measures how deep, liquid, widely-traded, dear and scarce this card’s market is from sales and population records we hold. It is not a forecast, not a recommendation, and not a rating of this card as an investment.
Price by grade
What each grade’s real sales say — median of what actually sold.
Each grade is priced on the median of its own real sales — never averaged across grades, and never across printings. A 1st Edition, Shadowless or No Rarity copy is a different market from the ordinary print, so it gets its own row; where a grade holds sales of more than one printing and we cannot tell which copy sold, it is shown without a price — we abstain rather than publish the blend.
| Tier | Price | Confidence | Liquidity | Basis | Obs. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw (ungraded) | $194 | Moderate3 of 5 confidence checks passed | 42 in 90d recorded | 56 sales · last 27d ago | 56 |
| BGS 7.5 | — | — | 1 in 90d recorded | 1 sale · single sale · pop 15 | 1 |
| BGS 9 | $1,425 | Thin3 of 5 confidence checks passed | 2 in 90d recorded | 4 sales · last recorded 1mo ago · pop 46 | 4 |
| CGC 8 | $365 | Thin2 of 5 confidence checks passed | none in 90d | 2 sales · last 9mo ago · pop 72 | 2 |
| CGC 9 | — | — | none in 90d | 2 sales · $65–$700 · mixed? · pop 57 | 2 |
| CGC 10 | $2,300 | Thin2 of 5 confidence checks passed | none in 90d | 2 sales · last 5mo ago · pop 18 | 2 |
| PSA 1 | — | — | 6 in 90d recorded | 18 sales · inverts ladder · pop 103 | 18 |
| PSA 2 | — | — | 2 in 90d recorded | 4 sales · inverts ladder · pop 2 | 4 |
| PSA 3 | — | — | 2 in 90d recorded | 3 sales · inverts ladder · pop 60 | 3 |
| PSA 4 | — | — | none in 90d | 3 sales · $26–$305 · mixed? · pop 87 | 3 |
| PSA 5 | $307 | Moderate3 of 5 confidence checks passed | 4 in 90d recorded | 13 sales · last recorded 1mo ago · pop 180 | 13 |
| PSA 6 | $464 | High4 of 5 confidence checks passed | 6 in 90d recorded | 13 sales · last recorded 1mo ago · pop 307 | 13 |
| PSA 7 | $495 | Moderate3 of 5 confidence checks passed | 4 in 90d recorded | 8 sales · last recorded 1mo ago · pop 60 | 8 |
| PSA 8 | $850 | High4 of 5 confidence checks passed | 3 in 90d recorded | 20 sales · last recorded 1mo ago · pop 480 | 20 |
| PSA 9 | $1,500 | High4 of 5 confidence checks passed | 4 in 90d recorded | 17 sales · last recorded 1mo ago · ceiling $3,100 · 1 sale, unconfirmed · pop 397 | 17 |
| PSA 10 | $14,500 | High4 of 5 confidence checks passed | 3 in 90d recorded | 5 sales · last recorded 1mo ago · pop 58 | 5 |
| TAG 7 | — | — | 1 in 90d recorded | 1 sale · single sale | 1 |
How confident are we in each of these prices?
There is no weighting and no hidden formula here. We ask five plain questions about the sales behind a price, and the rating is simply how many of them we can answer yes to. Every threshold is the one our pricing engine already uses to decide whether it trusts its own answer — none was invented for this rating. A grade we publish no price for gets no rating either: there would be nothing to rate.
- ✓Enough sales to have a middle — 50 confirmed sales at this exact grade (the observation count beside this rung also includes 2 rows reconstructed from a listing’s own lifecycle rather than a confirmed sale — those never count toward this check)
- ✗Those sales agree with each other — The middle half of them spread 104% around the median — wide enough that the median is close to a coin toss
- ✓The market traded it recently — Most recent sale 27 days ago
- ✓More than one marketplace — Sales came from 6 different marketplaces
- ✗Dated by the venue, not by us — 39 of 50 came from venues that publish no sale date, so those dates are the day we recorded the sale — an upper bound on when it actually traded
- ✗Enough sales to have a middle — 4 confirmed sales at this exact grade — under the 5 our pricing engine treats as a settled sample
- ✓Those sales agree with each other — The middle half of them spread 13% around the median
- ✓The market traded it recently — Most recent sale 34 days ago
- ✓More than one marketplace — Sales came from 2 different marketplaces
- ✗Dated by the venue, not by us — 1 of 4 came from venues that publish no sale date, so those dates are the day we recorded the sale — an upper bound on when it actually traded
- ✗Enough sales to have a middle — 2 confirmed sales at this exact grade — under the 5 our pricing engine treats as a settled sample
- ✓Those sales agree with each other — The middle half of them spread 4% around the median
- ✗The market traded it recently — Most recent sale 265 days ago — past the 45-day half-life at which our engine already halves a sale’s weight
- ✗More than one marketplace — Every sale came from the same marketplace, so this is one venue’s price rather than the market’s
- ✓Dated by the venue, not by us — Every sale carries a date its venue published
- ✗Enough sales to have a middle — 2 confirmed sales at this exact grade — under the 5 our pricing engine treats as a settled sample
- ✓Those sales agree with each other — The middle half of them spread 13% around the median
- ✗The market traded it recently — Most recent sale 146 days ago — past the 45-day half-life at which our engine already halves a sale’s weight
- ✗More than one marketplace — Every sale came from the same marketplace, so this is one venue’s price rather than the market’s
- ✓Dated by the venue, not by us — Every sale carries a date its venue published
- ✓Enough sales to have a middle — 13 confirmed sales at this exact grade
- ✗Those sales agree with each other — The middle half of them spread 72% around the median — wide enough that the median is close to a coin toss
- ✓The market traded it recently — Most recent sale 34 days ago
- ✓More than one marketplace — Sales came from 2 different marketplaces
- ✗Dated by the venue, not by us — 1 of 13 came from venues that publish no sale date, so those dates are the day we recorded the sale — an upper bound on when it actually traded
- ✓Enough sales to have a middle — 13 confirmed sales at this exact grade
- ✓Those sales agree with each other — The middle half of them spread 37% around the median
- ✓The market traded it recently — Most recent sale 34 days ago
- ✓More than one marketplace — Sales came from 3 different marketplaces
- ✗Dated by the venue, not by us — 1 of 13 came from venues that publish no sale date, so those dates are the day we recorded the sale — an upper bound on when it actually traded
- ✓Enough sales to have a middle — 8 confirmed sales at this exact grade
- ✗Those sales agree with each other — The middle half of them spread 51% around the median — wide enough that the median is close to a coin toss
- ✓The market traded it recently — Most recent sale 34 days ago
- ✓More than one marketplace — Sales came from 3 different marketplaces
- ✗Dated by the venue, not by us — 4 of 8 came from venues that publish no sale date, so those dates are the day we recorded the sale — an upper bound on when it actually traded
- ✓Enough sales to have a middle — 20 confirmed sales at this exact grade
- ✓Those sales agree with each other — The middle half of them spread 42% around the median
- ✓The market traded it recently — Most recent sale 34 days ago
- ✓More than one marketplace — Sales came from 2 different marketplaces
- ✗Dated by the venue, not by us — 3 of 20 came from venues that publish no sale date, so those dates are the day we recorded the sale — an upper bound on when it actually traded
- ✓Enough sales to have a middle — 17 confirmed sales at this exact grade
- ✓Those sales agree with each other — The middle half of them spread 30% around the median
- ✓The market traded it recently — Most recent sale 34 days ago
- ✓More than one marketplace — Sales came from 3 different marketplaces
- ✗Dated by the venue, not by us — 3 of 17 came from venues that publish no sale date, so those dates are the day we recorded the sale — an upper bound on when it actually traded
- ✓Enough sales to have a middle — 5 confirmed sales at this exact grade
- ✓Those sales agree with each other — The middle half of them spread 26% around the median
- ✓The market traded it recently — Most recent sale 34 days ago
- ✓More than one marketplace — Sales came from 3 different marketplaces
- ✗Dated by the venue, not by us — 3 of 5 came from venues that publish no sale date, so those dates are the day we recorded the sale — an upper bound on when it actually traded
Where a rung reads last recorded, its most recent sale came from a venue that publishes no sale date — Mercari Japan publishes none — so that date is the day we recorded the sale, an upper bound on when it sold. The price is real; the date is an observation and we will not dress it up as a timestamp.
Cross-market comparisons and arbitrage routes are computed within one grade — PSA 10 against PSA 10, raw against raw. A route is never built from two different grades.
The same card in a different holder
What the market pays for this card at the same grade in each grader’s slab — and, if you hold one, what cracking it would have to return to be worth the fee.
Each grader’s price below is the median of that grader’s own recorded sales of this card at this exact grade. Nothing is averaged across graders and nothing is interpolated from a neighbouring grade. Every price here is the same figure the price-by-grade table above publishes — a rung that table abstains on is abstained on here too, and every fee, freight and tax figure is a real published rate from our cost model.
TAG 7 vs PSA 7
We can price a TAG slab because TAG slabs sell in public and we record those sales. We cannot tell you your chance of getting a 10 from TAG: that needs population data — how many of each grade TAG has issued for this card — and we hold none. TAG publishes no population report of the kind PSA, CGC and BGS do. So there is no “submit to TAG” route on this page, and we will not model one.
CGC 8 vs PSA 8
BGS 9 vs PSA 9
Price trend
Median market price over time, plus the sale-by-sale receipts.
Each point is a real recorded sale at that grade, over the full time we hold. Grades trade at very different prices, so the trend is per grade — pick a grade above.
Daily snapshot medians · US market · raw bucket. — the broader raw market-price trend across the same period, alongside the graded sales above.
PSA 8 population has grown from 100 on 2026-08-27 to 480 on 2026-09-19 (+380) — real grading-population readings, not a price.
Recent sales
| Sold | Venue | Region | Grade | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-24 27d ago | 🇺🇸 eBay (US) via PokéPriceTracker | North America | NM | $650 | auction view ↗ |
| 2026-08-17 34d ago recorded | 🇺🇸 eBay (US) | North America | NM | $275 | view ↗ |
| 2026-08-17 34d ago recorded | 🇺🇸 eBay (US) | North America | NM | $86 | view ↗ |
| 2026-08-17 34d ago recorded | 🇺🇸 eBay (US) | North America | NM | $225 | view ↗ |
The 4 most recent — confirmed sales first, then estimates; distinct price points, identical re-ingested rows count once, never stacked. The full 195-point sale-by-sale history unlocks with Pro. Venue is the marketplace the sale actually cleared on — eBay, Goldin, ALT, Fanatics, SNKRDUNK and the rest — established from the sale’s own listing URL, its auction house, or the feed’s own declaration of the venue. A via tag names the data feed that delivered the record; the feed is never the venue. Where none of those establish a marketplace the row says venue not disclosed rather than naming one we cannot prove. Rows tagged guide are marketplace price-guide points (TCGplayer market / Cardmarket trend), not confirmed sales; rows tagged est. are inferred from a listing that left the market, not directly-recorded sales. Rows tagged recorded come from a venue that publishes no sale date — Mercari Japan publishes none — so the date shown is the day we recorded the sale, an upper bound on when it sold. The price is real either way; we do not invent a date.
We hold 20 sales of this card that are not allowed to price anything. Every figure on this page was computed with them removed. See what we set aside for this card, and why →
See the 30-day, 90-day and 1-year charts and every past sale on record — date, venue, region, grade and the price it actually fetched.
Buy from around the world
The lowest live ask on every platform we track — cheapest first.
The cheapest live ask in every region we track — real global pricing, not just the US.
See every listing we track and the net spread — cheapest ask first, the difference after ~13% marketplace + payment fees.
Asks are what sellers want; the price above is what the market actually clears at. Pro shows both sides plus the spread net of fees.
Sold around the world
Daily market prices by region and platform — what this card actually changes hands for worldwide, kept apart from seller asks.
| Platform | Sales | Median | Low – High | Last sold |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 eBay (US) | 30 | $198 | $81 – $526 | $275 34d ago recorded |
| 🌐 PokéPriceTracker | 11 | $370 | $82 – $650 | $650 27d ago |
| 🇪🇺 eBay (eurozone) | 4 | $119 | $83.99 – $184 | €110 · $119 34d ago recorded |
| 🇬🇧 eBay UK | 3 | $146 | $140 – $182 | £114.71 · $146 34d ago recorded |
| 🇨🇦 eBay CA | 1 | $73 | $73 – $73 | C$100 · $73 34d ago recorded |
| 🇦🇺 eBay AU | 1 | $153 | $153 – $153 | A$235.18 · $153 34d ago recorded |
Daily market prices across 6 platforms in North America, Europe, Other — counts are distinct sales, never duplicated listings. Guide rows (TCGplayer market / Cardmarket trend) are labelled as estimates, not sales. A recorded tag means that venue publishes no sale date, so its date is the day we saw the listing sold.
When this card goes under the hammer
Results from the consignment houses where high-end copies actually trade — each lot, dated, named, never averaged.
| Sold | House | Tier | Price realised | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-26 | Goldin | PSA 9 | $1,225price realised | lot ↗ |
The top result above is 0.8× our published marketplace median for the same rung (PSA 9 · $1,500). That is not a contradiction and neither figure is wrong: a median describes where copies routinely change hands, and an auction record describes what one specific lot fetched on one specific day in front of bidders who wanted it. We publish both and blend neither.
These are individual consignment-auction results, each one lot on one date at one house — they are listed, never averaged. Two auction results do not make a median: the lots differ in eye appeal, provenance and who was bidding that night. Nothing in this table prices any rung of the grade ladder above, and nothing here moves this card’s market value. Where we hold the hammer price and the buyer’s premium as separate figures we show both, because what the bidder paid and what the consignor was sold at are different facts; where we hold one figure we name which one it is rather than reconstructing the other.
Population reports
How many graded copies exist — with the readings our own sales contradict called out, not quietly used.
⚠︎ These population readings are incomplete, and we will not price scarcity off them
A population report counts every copy a grader has ever slabbed, over the card’s whole life. Our sale record covers a much shorter window. So when our confirmed-sale count for one tier comes out above that grader’s all-time count for the same tier, the two datasets contradict each other and the population reading is the one that is short — here by 4 on PSA 2.
- PSA 2 — the report lists 2 copies, and we hold 6 confirmed sales of that exact tier.
The numbers stay on screen because they are real readings and deleting them would hide the problem. What we have withdrawn is everything derived from them for PSA: no gem rate, no “only N copies exist”, and nothing in this page’s FAQ or structured data. We would rather answer nothing than answer that.
Only confirmed sales are counted in this check — never price-guide rows and never sales we inferred from a listing leaving the market. No competitor runs this check, because none of them holds an independent sale record deep enough to test a population report against.
PSA incomplete reading
| Grade | Population |
|---|---|
| PSA 10 | 58 |
| PSA 9 | 397 |
| PSA 8 | 480 |
| PSA 7 | 60 |
| PSA 6 | 307 |
| PSA 5 | 180 |
| PSA 4 | 87 |
| PSA 3 | 60 |
| PSA 2 | 2incomplete |
| PSA 1 | 103 |
CGC 216 graded copies
| Grade | Population |
|---|---|
| CGC 10 | 18 |
| CGC 9.5 | 10 |
| CGC 9 | 57 |
| CGC 8 | 72 |
| CGC 7 | 29 |
| CGC 6 | 17 |
| CGC 5 | 5 |
| CGC 4 | 4 |
| CGC 3 | 3 |
| CGC 1 | 1 |
BGS 201 graded copies
| Grade | Population |
|---|---|
| BGS 9.5 | 15 |
| BGS 9 | 46 |
| BGS 8.5 | 67 |
| BGS 8 | 29 |
| BGS 7.5 | 15 |
| BGS 7 | 6 |
| BGS 6.5 | 8 |
| BGS 6 | 8 |
| BGS 5 | 1 |
| BGS 4.5 | 5 |
| BGS 2.5 | 1 |
SGC 6 graded copies
| Grade | Population |
|---|---|
| SGC 8 | 3 |
| SGC 7 | 2 |
| SGC 1 | 1 |
Population over time — 24 new copies slabbed across 7 tiers in this window
| Tier | Trend | 2026-08-27 | 2026-09-19 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 8 | 479 | 480 | +1 (0.2%) | |
| PSA 9 | 396 | 397 | +1 (0.3%) | |
| PSA 6 | 304 | 307 | +3 (1.0%) | |
| PSA 5 | 179 | 180 | +1 (0.6%) | |
| PSA 1 | 102 | 103 | +1 (1.0%) | |
| PSA 4 | 85 | 87 | +2 (2.4%) | |
| PSA 10 | 58 | 73 | +15 (26%) | |
| CGC 8 | 72 | 72 | no change |
Every point is a real population reading taken on the date shown — first reading 2026-08-27, latest 2026-09-19 (23 days). That is the whole window we hold for this card; it is not a one-year trend and we will not present it as one. A population can only grow — a card cannot be un-graded — so where a reading came back lower than the one before it, that is a partial crawl and the series carries the higher figure forward rather than drawing a fall that never happened.
Why this matters: scarcity is a flow, not a constant. A tier whose count is climbing is getting less scarce while its price chart says nothing at all — and a tier that has not moved in weeks is holding its scarcity. Nobody else publishes this per grade.
What grading this card would actually cost you
Every term in the sum, sourced — the slab’s real sale price, the marketplace’s published fee, the grader’s published rate.
Every graded row is that same sale, minus the same marketplace fee, minus the grader’s published fee, minus $12 of shipping both ways. The “vs raw” column is the only number that matters: what that outcome would leave you with over selling the card as it is now.
PSA · cheapest published service tier whose declared-value cap covers each outcome
| If it grades | Sells for | eBay fee | Grading | You net | vs raw | Of existing slabs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA 10 · 5 sales | $14,500 | Above every PSA declared-value cap in our published fee table (highest: $10,000). We hold no rate we could quote for a slab worth this much, so we quote none. | — | |||
| PSA 9 · 17 sales | $1,500 | −$199 | −$80PSA Regular · 35d | $1,209 | +$1,045 | — |
| PSA 8 · 20 sales | $850 | −$113 | −$80PSA Regular · 35d | $645 | +$481 | — |
The “of existing slabs” column is blank for PSA on this card. Its population reading is contradicted by our own sale record (see the population section), and a share worked out from a count we have called incomplete would be a fabricated probability.
CGC · no eligible service tier
Every CGC rung we can price on this card sits above the highest declared-value cap we hold a published CGC rate for ($1,000). We will not price a submission at a tier that would not accept the card, and we will not invent a rate for one we have not got — so there is no CGC figure on this card.
BGS · cheapest published service tier whose declared-value cap covers each outcome
| If it grades | Sells for | eBay fee | Grading | You net | vs raw | Of existing slabs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BGS 9 · 4 sales | $1,425 | −$189 | −$35BGS Standard · 45d | $1,189 | +$1,025 | 23% |
“Of existing slabs” is how BGS’s 201 graded copies of this card actually landed. It is the base rate for the population, not the odds for your copy — the copies people submit are not a random sample, and we have never seen the card in your hand.
What this cannot tell you. Which grade your copy would get. That depends on centring, edges, surface and corners on the card in your hand, and we have never seen it — so there is no single headline number here and no “worth it / not worth it” verdict. Each row is one outcome, priced from that tier’s own real sales; a tier we publish no price for stays blank rather than borrowing a figure from the grade next to it. Turnaround is the grader’s published business-day estimate, and the market can move inside it. Descriptive market arithmetic, not investment advice.
Should you grade it?
Expected grade × daily market prices − grading fees = net value, per grader.
See the full grader ladder — chance of a 10, what a 10 and a 9 actually fetch, and the fee, expected value and ROI on every route.
Should you grade it? Every grader route, your cost basis, and Japan vs the West → · or scan a photo of your copy
Who is looking at this card
Demand and supply signals that move before price does.
This is where the attention layer goes: how much YouTube activity this card is getting (demand) against how many copies are listed for sale right now (supply). Rising demand into falling supply is the setup that moves before the price does — the leading indicator this category does not have.
We hold no readings for this card, so there is no number here. The model is built (src/attention); the collector has not run against this database yet, and until it has, an attention score would be something we made up. A blank panel that says so is the honest version of this section.
Long-term outlook
Transparent scenario model from real solds, supply and demand — bands widen with time.
See where this card is projected to be in 10 years — scenario bands, every horizon, and the long-term verdict.
Scenario projection based on demand/supply trends and known catalysts. Not investment advice and not a guarantee of future prices.
What Tyranitar actually does
The printed card — its attacks, what they cost, what it is weak to, and whether it is still tournament legal.
All Energy attached to Tyranitar is Darkness Energy instead of its usual type.
Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 50 damage plus 10 more damage and does 10 damage to each of your opponent's Benched Pokémon, if any. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
Card text, attacks and format legality come from the open card catalogue TCGdex. They describe the card as printed; nothing here is a price, an estimate or anything Hoshino computed. A field we hold no record for is left out rather than filled in.
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Frequently asked questions
Answered from the data on this page — nothing here is written by hand.
How much is Tyranitar (Expedition Base Set #29) worth?
Tyranitar (Expedition Base Set #29) is worth $189 based on daily market prices (55 distinct sales) on Hoshino. Typical range: $71.99–$508 (raw/ungraded).
Where can I buy or sell Tyranitar (Expedition Base Set #29)?
You can find Tyranitar (Expedition Base Set #29) on Hoshino, with live listings on eBay DE, eBay ES, eBay UK, eBay IT and recent solds from eBay (US), PokéPriceTracker, eBay (eurozone), eBay UK. Each listing links directly to the seller’s page.
What is the graded value of Tyranitar (Expedition Base Set #29)?
Graded values for Tyranitar (Expedition Base Set #29): BGS 9 — $1,425; CGC 8 — $365; CGC 10 — $2,300; PSA 5 — $307; PSA 6 — $464; PSA 7 — $495; PSA 8 — $850; PSA 9 — $1,500; PSA 10 — $14,500. Each tier is priced on its own sales — Hoshino never mixes a PSA 10 with a raw copy.
Is Tyranitar (Expedition Base Set #29) going up or down in price?
Tyranitar (Expedition Base Set #29) is trending up in price. 30-day change: +100%. Based on live market data tracked on Hoshino.
How many Tyranitar (Expedition Base Set #29) have been graded?
Across CGC and BGS and SGC, 423 copies of Tyranitar (Expedition Base Set #29) have been professionally graded, based on population reports tracked on Hoshino.
What does Tyranitar (Expedition Base Set #29) do?
Tyranitar (Expedition Base Set #29) is a 120 HP Darkness-type card (Stage2). Its attack is Stamp (50+ damage). It is weak to Fighting (x2). Illustrated by Kimiya Masago.
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